Name: Slave Labor on Virginia's Blue Ridge Railroad (American Heritage)
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Author: Lyons, Mary E.
ISBN: 9781467144902

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Slave Labor on Virginia's Blue Ridge Railroad (American Heritage)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Mary E. Lyons

Publisher

History Press

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

128

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.6 x 15.0 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN13

9781467144902

Synopsis "Slave Labor on Virginia's Blue Ridge Railroad (American Heritage) "

Between 1849 and 1859, Virginia raced to pierce the Blue Ridge Mountains by rail and reach the Ohio River. At least 300 enslaved people labored involuntarily toward that goal, along with 1,500 Irish immigrants. The state leased the labor of enslaved Virginians from local slaveholders, including four connected with nearby University of Virginia. Blue Ridge Tunnel and Blue Ridge Railroad historian Mary E. Lyons explored hundreds of primary documents to write the first nonfiction book about slave labor on a specific antebellum railroad. She shares hundreds of enslaved people's names, traces where they toiled along the line and describes their backbreaking--and sometimes fatal--tasks.

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